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Where are the Twin Sister cannons located? What happened to them?

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Where are the Twin Sister cannons located? What happened to them?

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Nobody knows. They were used in the Battle of Galveston on January 1, 1863. The last official mention of the Twin Sisters was in a February 8, 1864 letter to Col. John S. (Rip) Ford from Lt. Walter W. Blow, who intended to send the cannons to Ford for use in an expedition to recapture the Rio Grande from Federal troops. It is not known if the Twin Sisters actually accompanied the expedition. Legend states that a group of Confederate soldiers buried the Twin Sisters somewhere near Houston or Harrisburg in 1865, to keep them from Union Army, but the truth of the story is not known.